SASL authorization failing while connecting to XMPP server

Question

I am trying to connect to gmail using SMACK API through XMPP server. but getting the

error : SASL authentication failed using mechanism PLAIN

you can check a glimpse of code. I got it from net only

ConnectionConfiguration connConfig = new ConnectionConfiguration("talk.google.com", 5222, "gmail.com");
connection = new XMPPConnection(connConfig);
connection.connect();
SASLAuthentication.supportSASLMechanism("PLAIN", 0);

I checked in the smack debug window. it says in XML :

< invalid-authzid />

I am already having account on gmail and my gtalk is also running.

Multistage

Answer 1

You need to set the authentication before you connect viz

SASLAuthentication.supportSASLMechanism("PLAIN", 0);

must appear before connection.connect().

See my blog.

Killebrew

I cannot find that method in that class. Any alternative? – Gauhati

This method does not belong to my version of smack – Trinary

Answer 2

    ConnectionConfiguration cc = new ConnectionConfiguration(
            "vietnam.agilemobile.com", 5222, vietnam.agilemobile.com");
    XMPPConnection connection = new XMPPConnection(cc);
    try {
        SASLAuthentication.supportSASLMechanism("PLAIN", 0);
        connection.connect();
        Log.e("LOGIN", "" + 111);
        // You have to put this code before you login
        Log.e("LOGIN", "" + 222);
        // You have to specify your gmail addres WITH @gmail.com at the end
        connection.login("nemodo", "123456", "resource");
        Log.e("LOGIN", "" + 333);
        // See if you are authenticated
        System.out.println(connection.isAuthenticated());

    } catch (XMPPException e1) {
        e1.printStackTrace();
    }

I also get this mistake, but i can not work.

Richmound

Explain whats the error and provide correction to the user provided code. – Finfoot

SASLAuthentication.supportSASLMechanism("PLAIN", 0); is not available anymore. – Gauhati

Answer 3

For anyone looking for possible solutions to this many years after this was originally asked and answered, I recently was able to get past this authentication error by explicitly setting the authzid value on the XMPPTCPConnectionConfiguration.

I was running into an issue where my connection configuration worked fine for some client XMPP servers, but not for others, even though they were all using SASL PLAIN authentication. After some troubleshooting, I learned that the ones that were failing were expecting an authzid value. After adjusting my code to set this, it works in both the environments that were working before, as well as the environments that were failing.

Here is how I am building my connection configuration:

XMPPTCPConnectionConfiguration.builder()
                              .setHost(XMPP_DOMAIN)
                              .setXmppDomain(XMPP_DOMAIN)
                              .setPort(XMPP_PORT)
                              .setCompressionEnabled(true) // optional, not all servers will support this
                              .setUsernameAndPassword(XMPP_USER, XMPP_PASSWORD)
                              .setResource(XMPP_RESOURCE)
                              .setAuthzid(JidCreate.entityBareFrom(String.format("%s@%s", XMPP_USER, XMPP_DOMAIN))) // <-- this was the change I needed
                              .build();

Specifically I needed to add this line:

.setAuthzid(JidCreate.entityBareFrom(String.format("%s@%s", XMPP_USER, XMPP_DOMAIN)))

Ptah